EAN: 9780520300873

UNITED STATES OF WAR - DAVID VINE GEBUNDEN

The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This
nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war
or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of
War  David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in
Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire. Drawing on historical and
firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories  The United States of
War demonstrates how US leaders across generations have locked the United States in a
self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world's largest-ever collection
of foreign military bases--a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more
likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires  political interests  racism  and toxic
masculinity underlying the country's relationship to war and empire  The United States of War
shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives  from today's
multi-trillion-dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S.
life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars--which have left
millions dead  wounded  and displaced--while offering proposals for how we can end the
fighting.

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